Call for Posters

Poster presentations provide researchers with a unique opportunity to present and to receive direct feedback from an expert audience about significant work in progress, bleeding-edge work, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical fashion.

Interested Topics

We encourage submissions of high quality posters on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest in the three areas include, but are not limited to:

Database

Access methods and indexing

Authorization, data privacy and security

Concurrency control and recovery

Data adaptability, reusability and quality

Database languages, models and interfaces

Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases

Cloud computing, peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases

Query processing, optimization and performance

Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing

Stream-based processing, real-time and network databases

String databases, blogs and social search

Systems, middleware, applications and experiences

Temporal, spatial, mobile, multimedia and scientific databases

Information Retrieval

Semi-Structured Information Retrieval

Semantic and Entity-Based Information Retrieval

Domain-specific IR (legal, genome, chemical, etc.)

Citation Analysis and Social Networks for IR

Distributed IR and Peer-to-Peer Search

Filtering (recommender systems, topic tracking)

User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization

User Analysis and Privacy

IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency

IR Evaluation and User Studies

Language Specific IR (multi-lingual, NLP, question and answer)

Machine Learning for IR

Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)

Web Search and Advertising

Adversarial IR and Spam

Novel IR Interfaces (mobile, explorative, interactive)

Foundation of Information Retrieval (theory, ranking, etc.)

Knowledge Management

Data mining theory, methods, and applications

Machine learning applications

Big data analytics

Data warehousing and business intelligence

Information extraction and filtering

Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization

Semantic Techniques

Social networks and social media

Knowledge management in innovative applications, such as healthcare information and network security intelligence

Poster Submissions

All extended abstracts for posters will be reviewed and published in the ACM CIKM proceedings. Submissions of extended abstracts for posters must be in English and should not exceed 4 pages in ACM CIKM Proceedings format including references and figures. Here is the link to the ACM camera-ready templates.

As with full papers, authors are required to anonymize their submission and conceal their identity. Poster papers must be submitted electronically via CIKM 2013 online submission system.

Important Dates for Poster Submissions

Poster papers due: May 31, 2013, 11:59PM PDT

Notification: July 22, 2013

Camera ready: August 11, 2013

Queries regarding poster submissions should be sent to the Posters Chair: Yuanyuan Tian ([email protected]).